Re: yo yo
Subject: Re: yo yo
From: John Knefel <johnknefel@gmail.com>
Date: 10/8/10, 12:29
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Barrett,

Just tweeted your TFT piece.  My sister Molly and I are actually taking the Citizen Radio spot on BTR.  We're going twice a week, and, to get this out there right away, we would love to talk to your atheist politician.  We still don't launch for a week, and we have our first few shows scheduled, so it might be tough to get your guy on before the election.  We can certainly try.  Could we talk to him on the morning of October 18th? 

I think that we could get some of our atheist people to raise a ruckus about him.  I just did an Atheist convention in Montreal that had a ton of Americans at it.  I'll see if they could promote the interview too.

As far as your number 1 goes, Molly and I are working on a pilot right now and that's basically taking all of our other time.  Can't really start any new comedy projects.

For numbers 2 and 3, give me more info, I'm definitely interested.  And we'd love to interview you some time for the show too, on whatever topic(s) are going on at the time.  The show is called Radio Dispatch.

Let me know if Wynne can do the 18th.  We've already interviewed a state senator from IL, and we're going to get one from NYC too.  Politicians are right up our alley. 

Talk to you soon.
J




On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy, James-

You're probably aware that Jamie and Allison took Citizen Radio independent and are now running on memberships, so I'm trying to drum up some exposure for them; just put up a piece on Faster Times and Daily Kos if you'd like to link to one of them on your Facebook or Twitter devices. 

http://thefastertimes.com/punditry/2010/10/07/investigative-journalism-declares-its-independence/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/7/908640/-Investigative-journalism-declares-its-independence

Couple things:

1. Can't remember if I discussed Robert Green with you, but he's a producer with whom I've been doing some stuff for Funny or Die and Ferrel/McKay's production company Gary Sanchez. The video you did with your sister was quite funny, and Green not only has actors and a studio and all that, but also just met with an animation studio out there in California that we're probably going to use for the sketch I just wrote for him and other scripts as well. He's set up for pretty much any sort of sketch, then, so if you'd be interesting in submitting to him I'll put you in touch. I've pasted the one we're producing now below to give you a sense of what he's going for. He pays a couple hundred bucks on these and knows McKay, who in turn will feature them on the front page of FoD if they're good.

2. Have finally started moving again on Project PM; have set up a team of scientists to oversee a program I'm announcing this week in Skeptical Inquirer by which we're matching freelancers with scientists (and those in science-dependent professions) in order to promote the creation of superior, accurate science journalism. We also assist in getting them sold. If you'd like to get involved, let me know. 

3. We're engaged in some other interesting stuff as well, having brought on several new people with tech backgrounds to get the ball rolling on our proposed software for the blog network and whatnot. If you'd like to work with us in general, let me know, and I'll send instructions for logging on to the IRC channel in which we now "hang," as the kids say.

4. I'm now serving as an advisor to Wynne LeGrow, the Dem candidate in VA-04 who's up against Randy Forbes, founder of the Congressional Prayer Caucus and all--around Christfag. Had a conference call with him and his campaign manager this morning and convinced him to do the rest of the campaign in a somewhat unconventional fashion. LeGrow admitted to being an atheist early on in the campaign, which has hurt him, so I'm trying to turn this into an advantage by mobilizing atheists around the country to donate and volunteer for phone banking duties. If you could spread the word about him, I would greatly appreciate it. Even if he doesn't win, he can still force the Republicans to spend money in this race and thus take a little pressure off of Dems in other races. I'm not a Democrat myself but I hate Republicans so I'm going to be concentrating on this in particular until election day. Here's a link to a piece I did yesterday that will give you the basics: http://thefastertimes.com/punditry/2010/10/06/atheist-congressional-candidate-takes-on-theocratic-incumbent/. Maybe you could alert your posse or Twitter followers or whatever you have to this race, or write about it, or help me go through congressional records for shit to make fun of Forbes for; if so, I'll send you some links to those data bases.

5. I have no more things.

Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302